Orazmuhammet Charyyev has been appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The corresponding decree was issued by Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
Diplomatic relations between Ashgabat and Riyadh were established in 1992. In April 2007 Berdymuhamedov visited Saudi Arabia for the first time to sign a general cooperation agreement.